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  "title": "open source caught up because it's open",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1w0kstl/open_source_caught_up_because_its_open/",
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  "published_at": "2026-08-28T08:33:44+00:00",
  "transcript": "Proof is in the method honestly. Closed model labs need to constantly reinvent the wheel to keep lead. Open source has a bunch of independent labs practically working somewhat together. Eventually when everyone is just releasing weights and papers on how they did it the closed source secrets just get overrun by having plenty of very good secret sauces to the public.\n\nThat and NO DOUBT chinese labs are sharing internal secrets amongst each which explains how when any of them makes a big jump the others seem to follow almost immediately. If gemini/openai/anthropic put their heads together they'd have to compromise monopolies but they sure as hell wouldn't be struggling to keep the lead\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[57 upvotes] Qwen 4 architecture is the idea deepseek popularized + the idea mamba nerds popularized + tweaked GQA as far as I can tell. It's amazing. If we all make iterative improvements we can outperform last gen SOTA for 1/10th the price or less. \n\n[24 upvotes] \"If gemini/openai/anthropic put their heads together they'd have to compromise monopolies but they sure as hell wouldn't be struggling to keep the lead\"\n\nTransformers were invented by Google in 2017, OpenAI shared gpt-2 code in the past, Anthropic is probably only LAB which is not contributing \n\nI don't know details about China but maybe all Chinese companies are somehow connected because of the government\n\n[21 upvotes] Bold of you to think that closed source models aren't built on public researches",
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